A 40 year-old man’s friendship with a man he met at a bar in Manhattan ended abruptly after his new buddy made off with his wallet on Nov. 11.

The whirlwind affair began in the early afternoon when the pair met at a Chinatown bar. At some point, the new friend offer the victim a ride back to his Fifth Avenue apartment, and, once there, invited himself in by asking to use the bathroom.

After a brief stay, the perp left. He promised to call — though not for another date. Instead, he revealed that he had taken the victim’s wallet and credit card.

Gamer gamed

A gun-toting thief made like a video game bandit, pulling a pistol on an employee at a Seventh Avenue video store on Nov. 13 and robbing him of equipment and the hottest video game.

The employee told cops that he was inside the store, which is between Carroll Street and Garfield Place, at around 11 am when a thug entered, followed the worker to the storage room, pulled the gun and demanded an Xbox system and the games that make it so much fun.

The employee complied, handing over several gaming machines, plus a portable player and the hot new game, “Call of Duty.”

He also tossed in $600 before the thief fled with one more warning, “Don’t come out for 15 minutes or I will kill you.”

Police are hunting a 5-foot-5, 180-pound man.

Target-ed

A Fourth Avenue woman had her wallet swiped off her baby stroller during a shopping expedition that started in the notorious Atlantic Terminal Mall on Oct. 30, cops said.

The woman, who, as fate would have it, works for the district attorney’s office, did not notice the crime for several days — until she checked her account and discovered that someone had made more than $1,000 in charges on her cards.

The thief might have taken the wallet off the stroller at Target, Party City, a nearby Key Food or the Associated Supermarket on Fifth Avenue — all stops on the 38-year-old victim’s itinerary that fateful day.

Burg report

At least two joints were busted into last week. Here are the details:

• A popular Ninth Street Latino restaurant was broken into early on Nov. 8 — and the thief got away with $500. Cops say that the burglar broke in through the back of El Viejo Yayo, which is between Fifth and Sixth avenues, sometime after 2:30 am. The burglar may have been involved in an earlier break-in at the Atomic Wings next door (LINK TO LAST WEEK).

• A thief made off with lots of fancy electronic gizmos after breaking into a Fifth Avenue apartment on Nov. 11. The tenant of the unit, which is at Sixth Street, told cops that he was not there between 9:30 am and 11:30 pm, when he returned to discover that two laptops, a camera, a camcorder and a DVD player were gone.

Pilfered!

A pair of thieves were caught red-handed in a Fifth Avenue building — thanks to eagle-eyed cops who shadowed the perps as they cased the block.

The crime gone awry occurred at around 4:30 pm on Nov. 11, after cops trailed the duo on foot while the brigands scoped out a place to rob.

Eventually, the pair duped their way into a building near Degraw Street and then snatched two packages of clothes. That’s when Officer Michael Furia moved in and slapped on the cuffs.

De-lapped

A thief snatched the portable computer right off of a woman’s lap as she was typing away on it in Grand Army Plaza on Nov. 9

The 24-year-old woman told police that she was working at around 9:30 pm near the entrance to Prospect Park when the thug ran up, swiped the Mac computer right off her lap and kept on running.

Cops turned up nada in a sweep of the area.

Medical injustice

A thief swiped a hospital worker’s wallet from the bag that she’d placed under her desk when she went out for lunch on Nov. 10.

It’s the latest crime against an employee at New York Methodist Hospital on Seventh Avenue.

It is unclear what she lost in the mid-day theft.

heTook iPhone

A knife-wielding thug forced a 22-year-old man to hand over his much-desired iPhone on Fourth Avenue on Nov. 15 — but he didn’t even get to make a call before a cop nabbed him.

The victim complied and the thief fled — but he was soon collared by cops, who reunited the victim with his fancy app-filled calling device.

Style snatch

A gunman robbed a Garfield Place jeans store of cash, clothes and an employee’s phone on Nov. 12.

Cops said that the pistol-packing clotheshorse initially seemed to be only browsing inside the store, which is near Seventh Avenue, at around 4:30 pm, but quickly revealed his true purpose by pulling the gun and demanding, “Open the register, give me the money and don’t push any buttons or I will kill you.”

On his way out, he added a chilling warning: “If I see you come out of the store, I will shoot you.”

He got away with $1,000 in gear.

Grand thefts auto

At least three motorcycles and one car were swiped last week in the car thieving capital of Brownstone Brooklyn. Here’s a roundup:

• A bandit made off with a Harley Davidson that had been parked on Baltic Street between Fourth and Fifth avenues at around 7 pm on Nov. 11.

• Later that night, a blue moped was snatched from Union Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues after its owner had left it unlocked and behind his fence.

• The next day, a Ducati crotch-rocket valued at over $13,000 was pilfered from Butler Street between Fourth and Fifth avenues by a thief who broke the wheel lock.

• And in the only reported car theft, a thief grabbed a 19-year-old Chevy that had been parked on Second Street between Eighth Avenue and Prospect Park West late on Nov. 11.